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Verizon: Our Proposals Stronger Than FCC's

By james_fudge

Speaking via his blog yesterday, senior Verizon spokesman David Fish said that the proposals crafted by Verizon and Google earlier this month are much stronger than anything the FCC could do through Title 2 reclassification of broadband services. Specifically he said that its "non-discrimination" and "presumption against any prioritization" provisions offered stronger protections to consumers.

Fish also commented on the Free Press response to a speech from Verizon public affairs chief Tom Tauke at the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum, which the group said would "harm the Internet and its users, not help them."

"We believe a practical, principled and pro-consumer resolution of the network neutrality debate is within reach," Fish said. "But, to get there, some people need to cool the rhetoric and stick to the facts."

The "rhetoric" from Free Press called Tauke out for his defense of the proposals at a speech earlier in the week: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).